Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Scottish artist Scott Myles' second solo exhibition within the gallery. Myles will present a new body of work across two floors of The Breeder.

Myles regularly explores language within his works. ELBABLE is reminiscent of the palindrome "able was I ere I saw elba" attributed to Napoleon who purportedly uttered the works on first sighting the Italian island where he was imprisoned.

The palindrome usefully underscores the split meaning and doubling that occurs in much of Myles' practice.

Scott Myles was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1975. He lives and works in Glasgow.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist in his later career.

As a student, assistant, and friend of James Joyce, Beckett is considered one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to many later writers, he is sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is also considered one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called "Theatre of the Absurd".

As such, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".